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PHILIPP HESSEMER, OF WSHINGT'ONDISTRIGT QF COLUMBIA.

Letters Patent No. 104,150, dated June 14, 1870.

TOY `HOOP.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part o! thesame.

To all whom 'it may concern Beit known that I, PHILIPP Hnssnnnn, of thecity and county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, haveinvented a new and improved 'Ioy Hoop; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing making a part of thisspeciiication, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, and

Figure 2 is a sectional elevation.

This invention consists'in the combination of tags painted in differentcolors with the spokes of a hoop, one tag to each spoke, and in thearrangement of one tag near or next to the hub of the hoop, the secondtag at a distance from the hub greater then the length of the first, thethird tag at a distance from the hub greater than twice the length o fthe first, and so on, in order that, when the hoop is rapidlyrevolved,pit

'may show as many separate concentric colored rings as there are tags.

The invention alsov consists in the combination with' the spokes of thehoop, when the latter are provided with the tags, as before described,ofi-bells, one to cach spoke, arranged at such varying distances fromthe hub as to operate as supplementary weights to the tags, and preservethe equilibrium of the hoop.

la is the hoop.

b, the spokes.

c, the hub.

cl e f, .the tags, of which there are, in this instance,

three, one blue, another white, and the third red, the

blue tag being next the hub, the white tag being at a distance'from thehub great-er thelength of the blue one, andthe red tag being next therim of the hoop, and at a distance from the hub greater than thecoinbined lengths of the blue and white; andv hl t' k, the bells,of-whichhl operates as a supplementary weight to the blue tag, fi. tothered tag, and k to the white tag, and which, by their tinkling when thespokes, substantially in the manner described, and for the purpose setforth.

2. The combination of the hoop d, spokes b, tags def,

and bells h t' k, when the latter are arranged operate as supplementaryweights, substantially as described.

' PHILIPP HESSEMER.

Witnesses:v

SoLoN O. Knnox, i D. DURAND.

